The Delaware Geological Survey will be hosting the 2014
Digital Mapping Techniques meeting. The meeting dates are June 1-4, 2014.
Below is an announcement of the meeting from Dave Soller
(USGS) who runs the National Geologic Map Database. Mapping and spatial technology is evolving
fast, so the meeting is a great opportunity for geological survey staff to
learn and share new things, and transfer technology to colleagues and friends:
The meeting will be held at the conference center on the
University of Delaware’s campus, which is a short walk to downtown where many
coffee shops, pubs, and eateries can be found. The meeting site will be very
accessible and affordable, with 3 airports within 50 miles (with discount
carriers Southwest, Frontier, and Jet Blue), regional rail service (MARC and
SEPTA), and Amtrak stations minutes away; and a confluence of major east-coast
interstate highways all passing through or intersecting near Newark, Delaware.
We are looking forward to welcoming you and/or your staff in June!
DMT'14
(1) Date and location:
- June 1-4, 2014
- University of Delaware (in Newark)
(2) Registration and meeting website:
- We anticipate that Registration at that site will open in January.
I will send you a notice when it's available.
(3) General plan for the agenda:
Sunday, June 1 -- the meeting begins in late afternoon -
early evening, very casually as usual, with an icebreaker. Poster setup
may be possible during this time (we'll verify this…).
Monday, June 2 -- Oral presentations and
Discussion Sessions in the morning and early afternoon. Poster session,
"Map Blast", and snacks in mid-afternoon through early evening.
Tuesday, June 3 -- Oral presentations and
Discussion Sessions in the morning and afternoon.
Wednesday, June 4 -- we'll conclude (by noon) with
informal discussions and presentations.
(4) Presentations and DIscussion Sessions:
- If you'd like to give a presentation (oral and/or
poster), please contact me by email or phone. The following information
is very helpful before we chat, and I'll need it for the final agenda:
- Title
- Author(s)
- Affiliation(s)
- a "blurb", just a few sentences, describing the
subject of your talk.
- Before the end of January, I will post to the
meeting Web site the Instructions to Authors.
- Regarding topics for the Discussion Sessions, please
suggest things you'd like to discuss. They could be subjects for a
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Even if you can't attend the meeting, we welcome your ideas
and guidance regarding topics that you find most significant, and we'll try to
work them into the agenda.
